The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-07

Thomas C. Reynolds, ex-Lieutenant Gov
ernor Of Missouri, committed suicide at the
custom house in st. Louis on the 30th ult
by plunging down the elevator shaft from
the third floor. He fell q distance of eighty
feet and crushed in his skull. Mental de-
rangement was the supposed cause.
In the lower house of the Illinois Legis-
lature on the Goth ult. resolution was
adopted denouncing the poposed Irish coer-
cion laws and condemning the policy Of the
English Government towards Ireland.
The trial of DIR. James Hodges, who ex-
ploded bomb in the Grand Opera House
on February 9 during PATHS concert, was
held on the 31st ult. Thejury brought in a
verdict of guilty of the charge Of assault
with intent to murder.
The State has rested its case in the Had
dock murder trial at Sioux City, Ia, and
the defense began examining witnesses on
the 31st ult
A bill passed the Illinois House on the
31st ult. making it unlawful to hunt or kill
prairie chickens, quail or pheasants for q
term of five years.
Charles D. Hildebrandt, the reformed
thief who gave lectures all through Ohio
on prisons and prison life, died at Evans
Vile, Ind, few days ago. He spent over
twenty years of his life in jail and was re-
Among the bills passed by the Wisconsin
Assembly recently was one providing that
any employers who combine to blacklist
employees shall be fined not less than fifty
dollars or imprisonment for not more than
than twelve months.
Mrs. Cameron, wife OF ex-United States
Senator Augustus Cameron, attempted sui
eide few nights ago by walking of the
levee into the Mississippi river, at La
Crosse, Wis. She was rescued by oficials
Of the st. Paul Packet Company. Mrs.
Cameron has been in i'll health for months
past and at times is delirious.
A. M. Stanton, manager of George K.
Sistare's Sons bank, of Detroit, Mich, has
absconded with between SIS, 900 and So, ,000
Part of this sum was taken from the De-
troit branch of the bank and the balance
was secured by means Of fictitious orders
sent to the firm in New York.
Two freight trains collided four miles
west Of Corinth, Miss, on the 1st, instantly
killing Engineer Kahlo and Fireman Castle
burg, both of the east-bound train. Castle
burg's body was entirely burned up.
Ex-Judge John W. Harris died at Calves
ton, Tex, on the 1st, aged seventy-nine
years. He was the first Attorney General
of Texas, and before that was a prominent
lawyer under the republic.
The Stonecutters Association, comprising
all the mills at Cincinnati, Covington and
Newport, KY, has decided to close business
until settlement can be made as to wages.
They say they can not meet the demand OF
workrnen for forty five cents an hour, eight
hours for days work, and that the work
men have refused to arbitrate or even con-
fer. About seven hundred workmen are
affected.
Cattle on the ranges Of New Mexico, In.
dian Territory and Colorado have come
through the winter in excellent shape, with
but slight losses.
General 8. 81. Hurst, Ohio State Dairy
and Food Commissioner, has appointed DR.
G. G. Ashmun, Of Cleveland, and Professor
William Dickson, Of Cincinnati, as expert
chemists for the department..
The wife of Alderman Charles L. James
of Eau Claire, Wis, has been granted {
| decree of divorce from her husband on the
ground of failure to support and inhumar
| treatment James is noted Anarchist ani
son of g. P. R. James, the English novelist
Captain j. G. Moore, who had probably
| developed more frst-class horses than any
other American trainer, died at Cral
| Orchard, KY, on the 1st from pneumonia.